Deans in Friends Schools

---

Join Friends School Colleagues - for one or both short check-in times

Thursday, November 5 from 3:45pm - 4:30pm (EST)
Friday, November 6 from 12:15pm - 1pm (EST)

---

Deans of All Sorts! Grade Level, Division, Studies. . .

Friends Council invites Deans from Quaker schools across the country for a share-and-listen session. 

A topic on our minds:- Post election environment in our schools- The delicate dance of holding all of the polarities in our communities.- Staying connected to Quaker Roots- Lending support to each other

Check out this piece from th Glasgow Group-
Civic Engagement & the School Environment

Bring your stories. Let's share and listen to one another.

• What are you doing that works?
• What strategies are you using to connect with your students and their families?
• Are there ways that we might help one another over the next few months.

Join Deans from Friends schools across the US.

Share questions and ideas about reopening school!

• Logistics for opening in-person, hybrid, virtual
• Orientation for students
• Attendance
• Policies - for mask-wearing, social distancing, expectations for online interactions, etc.

Here's a snippet of what we talked about on August 17.

From Triage to Adaptation to Resilience

Deans of All Sorts! Grade Level, Division, Studies. . .

Join Friends School Colleagues - Share What Worked and What's Next*

Friends Council invites Deans from Quaker schools across the country for a share-and-listen session. 

Share What Worked and What's Next - from the practical to the philosophical. . .

We'll be thinking about "From Triage to Adaptation to Resilience"  * (thanks to Greg Bamford for this theme)

These past several months have been BIG - lots of changes, lots of feelings, lots of adapting to uncertainty.

What lessons have we learned from our experiences in the spring and summer and how might we share ideas for the immediate future?

Bring your stories. Let's share and listen to one another.

• What are you doing that works?
• What strategies are you using to connect with your students and their families?
• Are there ways that we might help one another over the next few months.

Plan to collaborate with your peer teams in groups both large and small.